Louis II, Duke of Bourbon

Louis de Bourbon, called the Good (1337 – 1410, Montlucon), son of Peter de Bourbon and Isabella de Valois, was the third Duke of Bourbon.

Duke Louis is reported to have been somewhat mentally unstable, a trait of nervous breakdowns presumably hereditary that showed clearly for example in his sister Joanna of Bourbon, the queen, and already in their father, Duke Peter, and in their grandfather, Louis I, Duke of Bourbon.

The teenage Louis inherited the duchy from his father Duke Peter I after his death in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

On August 19, 1371, he married Anna of Auvergne (1358–1417), Countess of Forez and a daughter of Beraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne, and his wife the Countess of Forez, and they had four children:

1. Catherine of Bourbon (b. 1378), d. young
2. John of Bourbon (1381–1434), Duke of Bourbon
3. Louis of Bourbon (1388 – 1404), Sieur de Beaujeu
4. Isabelle of Bourbon (1384 – aft. 1451)

In 1390, Duke Louis launched a crusade against the Hafsids of Tunis, in conjunction with the Genoese. Its objective was to suppress piracy based in the city of Mahdia, but the siege was unsuccessful.

References

• Archaeologia: or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, Vol.20, (John Nichols and son:London, 1824), 236
• Housley, Norman, The later Crusades, 1274-1580: from Lyons to Alcazar, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Ancestors

Louis's ancestors in three generations'

Louis II, Duke of Bourbon	Father: Peter I, Duke of Bourbon	Paternal Grandfather: Louis I, Duke of Bourbon	Paternal Great-Grandfather: Robert, Count of Clermont
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Beatrix of Bourbon
		Paternal Grandmother: Mary of Avesnes	Paternal Great-Grandfather: John II, Count of Holland
			Paternal Great-Grandmother: Philippa of Luxembourg
	Mother: Isabella of Valois	Maternal Grandfather: Charles of Valois	Maternal Great-Grandfather: Philip III of France
			Maternal Great-Grandmother: Isabella of Aragon
		Maternal Grandmother: Mahaut of Châtillon	Maternal Great-grandfather: Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol
			Maternal Great-Grandmother: Marie of Brittany

French nobility
Preceded by John II	Count of Forez 1372–1410 with Anna	Succeeded by John I/III
Preceded by Peter I	Duke of Bourbon 1356–1410
	Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis 1371–1400